Liquidity and the marginal value of information

Alexei Boulatov and Bart Taub

Economic Theory, 2014, vol. 55, issue 2, 307-334

Abstract: We revisit Kyle’s (Econometrica 53:1315–1335, 1985 ) model of price formation in the presence of private information. We begin by using Back’s (Rev Financ Stud 5(3):387–409, 1992 ) approach, demonstrating that if standard assumptions are imposed, the model has a unique equilibrium solution and that the insider’s trading strategy has a martingale property. That in turn implies that the insider’s strategies are linear in total order flow. We also show that for arbitrary prior distributions, the insider’s trading strategy is uniquely determined by a Doob $$h$$ -transform that expresses the insider’s informational advantage. This allows us to reformulate the model so that Kyle’s liquidity parameter $$\lambda $$ is characterized by a Lagrange multiplier that is the marginal value or shadow price of information. Based on these findings, we can then interpret liquidity as the marginal value of information. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Market microstructure; Liquidity; Information; Doob $$h$$ -transform; G12; G14; C62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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